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Get a look at Willem Dafoe's mysterious character in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. The Boys returns in the first photos from season four's premiere episodes. Plus, Snowpiercer prepares for the end in a new teaser. To me, my spoilers!

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The banking industry took its time to transition from paper bills to plastic cards. Now it's in the midst of a more rapid transformation: going digital.Read more...

An internal Google database containing six years' worth of potential privacy breaches and security issues was recently obtained, and reveals-among many other things-that a Google employee used their access to watch a private YouTube video uploaded by Nintendo and leaked the details online.Read more...

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Keith Gill, the popular investor who sparked the skyrocketing of GameStop's stock back in 2021 and appears to be back at it again, might have his E*Trade account shut down, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal Monday. The stock trading platform and its owner Morgan Stanley reportedly have concerns about...Read more...

Mixing your long plane ride with alcohol could be a dangerous cocktail for your heart, new research out Monday suggests. The small trial found that healthy volunteers experienced a greater drop in their blood oxygen level and corresponding rise in heart rate after drinking alcohol while sleeping in high-altitude...Read more...

Sci-fi and fantasy entertainment has finally seen a shift toward more diverse casting-a move that not only better reflects our world, but also brings joy to fans who've longed to see people who look like them represented onscreen. (It can also, as we've seen especially with Star Wars, bring out toxic fans.) In a press...Read more...

Meta is testing unskippable Instagram ads, first reported by TechCrunch on Monday, alongside the patience of every user who has to put up with the feature. The unskippable ads, which some users shared their experience with on other social media platforms this weekend, force users to sit through a timed ad before they...Read more...

Disney Jr, Disney Channel, and Disney+ will roll out the first two Bluey minisodes over the Fourth of July weekend with a Red, White and Bluey" marathon.Read more...

President Joe Biden vetoed a resolution late Friday that passed through both the U.S. House and Senate and was widely supported by the cryptocurrency industry. And it's just the latest move from a president who's put himself firmly in the crosshairs of powerful crypto forces who are dumping millions of dollars into...Read more...

The Theatre des Vampires debuts a new show for Claudia (Delainey Hayles), while tensions brew among them after Armand (Assad Zaman) went off the script and did not kill Louis (Jacob Anderson) in last week's episode of Interview With the Vampire.

Doctor Who, like all science fiction, has always rooted its storytelling in allegory-raising ideas to challenge its contemporary audience through stories of the past, the future, of monsters, and running down hallways. It always makes the moments the show wants to step away from an allegorical message and explicitly...Read more...

What's the new word of the day, kids? It's ceraluminum," a real nonsense nomenclature combining ceramic and aluminum. That's the new word to describe the next-gen Asus Zenbook S16 powered with the new AMD Ryzen 300 AI CPUs. But let's ignore that for a second because some much more interesting ProArt PCs are coming...Read more...

The New York tri-state area is poised to have some large eight-legged tourists this summer. Experts are warning that the invasive Joro spider (Trichonephila clavata) could soon touch down in parts of New York and New Jersey. Striking in color and size as they may be, however, the arachnids aren't a danger to humans.Read more...

The Predator franchise is back once again, and now it's got its new leading lady. Director Dan Trachtenberg, whose 2022 film Prey pumped new life into the sci-fi franchise, is making another standalone Predator film and Elle Fanning has now joined its cast.Read more...

It's not surprising that a pristine example of Kenner's notoriously rare Boba Fett action figure with rocket-firing" action-never released to the public after being deemed a choking hazard-commanded a jaw-dropping sum at a recent auction. But $525,000 is quite the handsome bounty.Read more...

Have you seen clips from a new documentary narrated by Tom Cruise called Olympics Has Fallen, a play on the title of the 2013 movie Olympus Has Fallen? The new film claims to document the corruption in the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris, France. But it's fake. Cruise's narration was created with artificial...Read more...

One of the most prominent villains from Marvel's past just appeared in Marvel's future and it's a little bit confusing. Monday, Sony released the first trailer for Venom: The Last Dance, the third, and final, film in the Venom trilogy. In it, we see a character played by actor Chiwetel Ejiofor who, not so long ago,...Read more...

The PlayStation VR2 headset is finally being liberated from the confines of the PlayStation 5. Sony now has a $60 adapter that lets your $550 VR headset work with any of their Steam-based VR games. But hold off from slamming the buy button just yet. There are a few tradeoffs for taking your VR2 to PC, some of which...Read more...

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) said it was investigating a technical issue on Monday morning that caused roughly a dozen stocks, including Chipotle and GameStop, to experience volatility halts, according to Bloomberg. Berkshire Hathaway and the Bank of Montreal appeared to briefly trade at a 99% discount to their...Read more...

Lego has been making Minecraft sets for years at this point, and of course, kids and adult fans of the crafting game megahit will have inevitably enjoyed all those sets. But it's still interesting that it's taken so long for Lego to bring the franchise to its 18+ range of pricier, collector-focused offerings... and...Read more...

STEVE, a strange ribbon of purple and green haze discovered by citizen scientists in 2016, just got even weirder. While looking through archival data, a team of scientists discovered that the aurora-like phenomenon has a secret twin moving in the opposite direction.Read more...

Spotify released today announced it would raise U.S. prices again next month. The music streaming platform's last price hike was in July of 2023, so it's not even been a whole year to that.Read more...

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An Ice Age bird that weighed twice as much as an ostrich was adapted for the water, say a team of researchers who recently studied fossils from creature, which went extinct about 45,000 years ago. Based on bones of Genyornisnewtoni found in South Australia's Lake Callabonna, the animal weighed about 500 pounds (230...Read more...

What an absurd journey Star Trek: Prodigy has been on. The promising Trek animated series suffered an unjust and abrupt removal from Paramount+ last summer, leaving its second season in the lurch, until Netflix announced it would pick up the series... and only for that sophomore season 2 to accidentally show up on...Read more...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) refused to release an audio recording of President Biden's interview with former special counsel Robert Hur in a court filing on Friday, obtained by Politico. The department cited fears that publicizing the audio could lead to deceptive AI deepfakes of the sitting President.Read more...

The first clip from Netflix's Ultraman: Rising movie teases an adorable kaiju baby. Lois Lane's dad is up to no good in a new clip from My Adventures With Superman. The Boys sets the stage for its return with new character posters. Plus, go behind the scenes on A Quiet Place: Day One. Spoilers, away!

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The inexorable march toward the grave continues for all of us, though at the very least, we don't have a capricious deity named Apple deciding our fate. For those still holding on to your iPhone 5S, you should know Apple has officially put the old phone out to pasture by sticking it in its official obsolete list....Read more...

There's a lot going on in our first look at Venom: The Last Dance. Buddy cop routines with a giant goopy monster, alien invasions, diabolical threats to Eddie Brock's life. But there's also a Symbiote Horse, and that's just rather wonderful.

Rumors about Sonos releasing its first-ever headphones emerged last year when they acquired the T2 software, a Bluetooth audio startup. That wasn't the company's first time trying its hand at headphones. It's been trying to sneak into the headphone market since 2019 and has created a number of product iterations...Read more...

GameStop stock skyrocketed more than 100% on Monday before giving back just some of those huge gains, the latest meme stock rally fueled by the investor and social media personality known as Roaring Kitty."Read more...

This post was updated 6/3/2024 at 8:21 a.m. ET to include more information about OEMs who will sport the new AMD Ryzen AI 300 series chips.Read more...

It's official, the Boston Celtics and the Dallas Mavericks will face off in the NBA Finals. The best-of-seven series tips off this Thursday and will run through June, until one team achieves the four wins required to be crowned champion.

When web browsers first began to support apps and interactivity, the functionality was basic and slow-but now online apps can do almost as much as desktop apps can, and, more importantly, these online tools are free.

Back in 2018, WB released the CG movie Batman Ninja, its first real foray into anime from production company YamtoWorks and Kamikaze Douga. In the years since, there's been a lot of animated Batman movies, and you'd be fair in thinking Ninja was just an interesting one-off to have in the Bat-library. And you would end...Read more...

Over the last few weeks, there's been plenty of digital ink spilled online about the box office. Movies like Furiosa and The Fall Guy had barely made their initial projections, if they did at all, and it's caused many to wonder about the state of movies this year. After 2023 being filled with banger after banger amid...Read more...

Every once in a while, pockets of the internet collectively choose to put full weight behind reviving a show that was quite well-liked and got cancelled after a season or more. Jericho, Community, and Young Justice are just a handful of examples, and the newest show to join those ranks is last year's animated sci-fi...Read more...

June has just started and that means it's only a few weeks until the official debut of Tiana's Bayou Adventure at the Walt Disney World. Construction on the ride is officially complete, and Disney's marked the occasion providing a 9-minute ride-through video showing the full breadth of what you can expect from the Prin...Read more...

An emerging option for male birth control might be even more appealing to potential users than expected. Preliminary research released Sunday suggests that NES/T-a once-daily gel applied to the shoulders-can effectively suppress men's fertility within a matter of weeks.Read more...

2023 was a pretty big, fairly messy year for Dungeons & Dragons. As Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast overstepped in their attempts to make the actual tabletop game into a massive brand, said brand had a pair of significant bright spots in the utterly massive Baldur's Gate 3 and the pretty good live-action movie Honor...Read more...

It's barely been one full trip around the sun, but Asus and its ROG Ally are back for another crack at the gaming handheld crown. Like the Steam Deck OLED before, Asus now has a new version called the ROG Ally X. It has a better battery, RAM, and redesigned chassis. And yes, it now comes in black.Read more...

Do you like action movies? Do you like the ones where a bunch of crazy nonsense is happening that seems like it defies all the laws of physics? Do you like video games? Good news, all three of those itches are going to be scratched with an adaptation of the Just Cause games.Read more...

This year's a big one for Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures' MonsterVerse: the Godzilla film that kicked off the whole shebang turned 10 earlier in May, andits direct sequel Godzilla: King of the Monsters has now hit the five-year mark. The newest MonsterVerse entry, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, came out in...Read more...

Crystal Dynamics' Tomb Raider franchise is taking two interesting roads as it's got a brand new game in the works. On one side of things, the live-action series courtesy of Phoebe Waller-Bridge has recently moved forward over at Prime Video. And on the other, more immediate end, there's Netflix's Tomb Raider: The...Read more...

Before the month of May ended, Netflix revealed it'd renewed 3 Body Problem for more seasons. At the time, it wasn't entirely clear just how long the show would go on, but the streamer has now officially revealed that fittingly enough, it'll cap things off after two more seasons.Read more...

Semaglutide, the active ingredient in popular diabetes and obesity drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, can also tweak people's taste buds for the better, preliminary research suggests. Scientists found that women taking semaglutide improved their taste sensitivity, particularly to sweetness. The findings may illuminate another...Read more...

Godzilla Minus One was one of 2023's best movies, if not the best, depending on who you ask. If you're one of the folks who didn't get the chance to see it in theaters, great news: it's now on Netflix and available to own or rent digitally.